They’re probably going to hold new elections to replace the republican reps in jail now or they won’t have quorum.

The backup camera screen on the slate is in the digital instrument cluster. It’s just a small display under the speedo, I think.

They’re not doing research for Harvard, they’re doing science research for the public which was competitively assessed and awarded.

That’s how the US has chosen to fund science research for over 50 years. It was considered a public good and has easily been one of best public investments that we’ve made during the period.

America has been at the pinnacle of science, medicine and education largely through this partnership with Universities. trump and company are pissing that legacy away in an effort to destroy higher education in the US, which they believe to be an impediment to them instituting authoritarian rule.

They’re happy to loot the country and burn it to the ground so long as they can rule over the ashes.

Do you actually believe that the press would frame it anywhere near this way if Biden had tried to do something so blatantly corrupt?

There’s Openshift Virtualization included, which is based on the upstream kubevirt project. You’re essentially running VMs in containers and managing them (mostly) like the other container workloads in the environment.

Supposedly, there’s a display on the instrument cluster for the backup camera.

Nope.

If we cut the military budget to zero, we’d still have a trillion dollar deficit.

CBO Budget Infographic

25 mins of flight on a charge, and that’s not going to be at max speed , so we’ll ballpark it to 15 miles of range perhaps and that’s assuming no “traffic” or delays on landing. Not terribly practical like pretty much all of these flying car concepts.

Oh, and if anything goes wrong, you’re likely dead.

When is someone going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS?

Such as?

Democrats don’t have meaningful power at the moment due to that unfortunate last election, so they can make noise to bring attention to things, but not much that they can actually do.

People are protesting and making noise, so that’s a start, but we need more.

Sounding alarms about these sorts of things are good if they get more people pissed off so they get off their butts and start making noise themselves. No one else is going to save us.

…and yes, Dems should do more to slow down and block what they can in congress, but none of the stuff the the doggy folks are doing require legislation. I mean, what they’re doing is illegal in many ways, but nothing is going through congress to enable it. It’s more that the maladministration is just not enforcing the law when it chooses not to and if Dems had a majority in at least one wing of congress, they could at least hold hearings with some (minimal) teeth.

There’s no surplus, even with the extreme tariffs that trump is pushing. Given the economic destruction that they’re likely to cause, they’re probably a net loss for the treasury (and certainly are if one considers the damage that they’re doing to the IRS).

The reasons that the ‘sovereign wealth fund’ idea keeps coming up are:

1. All of the cool authoritarians have one
2. trump really, really, wants a slush fund to grift off of

That’s it.

Well, didn’t hit 5%, so time to go home everyone. Many thanks to lemming6969 for letting us know so we don’t waste our time.

Oddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.

trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.

After all of the sketchy contracts that musk seems to be getting under this regime, the next administration should nationalize SpaceX. With their corrupt self dealing, perhaps give him a dollar or so for it.

His mind is already mush and in four years, it’d be a terrible Weekend at Bernie’s sequel.

That’s because Tesla’s stock valuation was always based on “revolutionary new shiny thing!” rather than “making and selling cars”.

musk has to constantly come out with a new reason why the stock justifies a valuation so insanely high (was worth more than all other car companies combined). “Full self driving!” “Robotaxies!” “Fully automated manufacturing!”, etc….

That’s also why musk can extort $50B payoffs from Tesla. So much of their value is based on his BS powered reality distortion field that they’re terrified of what might happen if he leaves.

Now, there’s huge risk inherent in banking everything on the very stable genius musk as they’re learning.

The EV1 was too far ahead of its time. The tech wasn’t there and to even accomplish what they did cost far more than they could hope to sell it for. An estimate that each EV1 cost GM around $100k to make in the early 90’s (so around $200k in today’s dollars).

Battery tech has progressed massively since then and makes all of this possible now (even if it’s still expensive).

Executive orders can’t make things illegal. They’re not royal proclamations, they’re just guidance to executive agencies.

F*cking idiots.

Don’t worry, I’m sure that he has concepts of a plan already.

…and they should do what?

They don’t have the votes in congress to do anything themselves, and their ability to block things is very limited. They could slow down confirmations more, I suppose, but they don’t have the votes to stop anyone. Democracy sucks sometimes.

If they’re using the platform available to them to call out horrible things and lawbreaking, then it’s something. The only thing that might change the current situation is if we can start convincing more of the general population to sour on the trump regime to put pressure on them. Eventually, that could be leverages to win elections which could put a brake on things (maybe).